List of True Detective episodes

True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, that premiered on January 12, 2014, on HBO. The series focuses on police investigations and on the effect they have on troubled detectives that carry them out. Each season is structured as a self-contained narrative with different sets of characters and settings, and consists of eight episodes that have been between 54 and 87 minutes in length. As of February 24, 2019, 24 episodes of True Detective have aired, concluding the third season.

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired		Average viewers (in millions)
				First aired	Last aired
	1	8		January 12, 2014 (2014-01-12)	March 9, 2014 (2014-03-09)	2.33[1]
	2	8		June 21, 2015 (2015-06-21)	August 9, 2015 (2015-08-09)	2.61[2]
	3	8		January 13, 2019 (2019-01-13)	February 24, 2019 (2019-02-24)	1.25[3]

Episodes

Season 1 (2014)

Main article: True Detective (season 1)

In 2012, two former homicide investigators with the Louisiana State Police's Criminal Investigations Division, Rustin "Rust" Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin "Marty" Hart (Woody Harrelson), are summoned for questioning by detectives Maynard Gilbough (Michael Potts) and Thomas Papania (Tory Kittles), about the Dora Lange murder investigation of 1995; they have not seen nor spoken to each other since an altercation concerning Martin's wife Maggie Hart (Michelle Monaghan) over a decade prior. With many of the old files destroyed in Hurricane Rita, the two men are asked to recount the history of their working relationship, personal lives, and the Dora Lange murder investigation, as well as a series of other related individual cases as new evidence suggests that the perpetrator remains at large.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"The Long Bright Dark"	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Nic Pizzolatto	January 12, 2014 (2014-01-12)	2.33[4]
2	2	"Seeing Things"	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Nic Pizzolatto	January 19, 2014 (2014-01-19)	1.67[5]
3	3	"The Locked Room"	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Nic Pizzolatto	January 26, 2014 (2014-01-26)	1.93[6]
4	4	"Who Goes There"	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Nic Pizzolatto	February 9, 2014 (2014-02-09)	1.99[7]
5	5	"The Secret Fate of All Life"	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Nic Pizzolatto	February 16, 2014 (2014-02-16)	2.25[8]
6	6	"Haunted Houses"	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Nic Pizzolatto	February 23, 2014 (2014-02-23)	2.64[9]
7	7	"After You've Gone"	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Nic Pizzolatto	March 2, 2014 (2014-03-02)	2.34[10]
8	8	"Form and Void"	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Nic Pizzolatto	March 9, 2014 (2014-03-09)	3.52[11]

Season 2 (2015)

Main article: True Detective (season 2)

California Highway Patrol officer Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) discovers the dead body of a city manager who was involved in a major land deal. Given the ambiguous jurisdictional nature of the crime scene, two other officers, Vinci Police Department Detective Raymond Velcoro (Colin Farrell) and Ventura County Sheriff's Office CID Antigone "Ani" Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams), along with Woodrugh are assigned to investigate the murder. The crime soon involves Frank Semyon (Vince Vaughn), a career criminal who was involved in the land deal and whose life savings were stolen when the murder took place. The three detectives, plus Semyon, quickly realize a larger conspiracy at play involving the victim's ties to the city of Vinci's deepening corrupt proliferations.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
9	1	"The Western Book of the Dead"	Justin Lin	Nic Pizzolatto	June 21, 2015 (2015-06-21)	3.17[12]
10	2	"Night Finds You"	Justin Lin	Nic Pizzolatto	June 28, 2015 (2015-06-28)	3.05[13]
11	3	"Maybe Tomorrow"	Janus Metz	Nic Pizzolatto	July 5, 2015 (2015-07-05)	2.62[14]
12	4	"Down Will Come"	Jeremy Podeswa	Nic Pizzolatto & Scott Lasser	July 12, 2015 (2015-07-12)	2.36[15]
13	5	"Other Lives"	John Crowley	Nic Pizzolatto	July 19, 2015 (2015-07-19)	2.42[16]
14	6	"Church in Ruins"	Miguel Sapochnik	Nic Pizzolatto & Scott Lasser	July 26, 2015 (2015-07-26)	2.34[17]
15	7	"Black Maps and Motel Rooms"	Daniel Attias	Nic Pizzolatto	August 2, 2015 (2015-08-02)	2.18[18]
16	8	"Omega Station"	John Crowley	Nic Pizzolatto	August 9, 2015 (2015-08-09)	2.73[19]

Season 3 (2019)

Main article: True Detective (season 3)

The story takes place in the Ozarks over three separate time periods. In 1980, partner detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) investigate a macabre crime involving two missing children. In 1990, Hays and West are subpoenaed after a major break in the case. In 2015, a retired Hays is asked by a true crime documentary producer to look back at the unsolved case.[20]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
17	1	"The Great War and Modern Memory"	Jeremy Saulnier	Nic Pizzolatto	January 13, 2019 (2019-01-13)	1.44[21]
18	2	"Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"	Jeremy Saulnier	Nic Pizzolatto	January 13, 2019 (2019-01-13)	1.19[21]
19	3	"The Big Never"	Daniel Sackheim	Nic Pizzolatto	January 20, 2019 (2019-01-20)	1.06[22]
20	4	"The Hour and the Day"	Nic Pizzolatto	Nic Pizzolatto & David Milch	January 27, 2019 (2019-01-27)	1.45[23]
21	5	"If You Have Ghosts"	Nic Pizzolatto	Nic Pizzolatto	February 1, 2019 (2019-02-01) (online) February 3, 2019 (2019-02-03) (HBO)	0.88[24]
22	6	"Hunters in the Dark"	Daniel Sackheim	Graham Gordy & Nic Pizzolatto	February 10, 2019 (2019-02-10)	1.25[25]
23	7	"The Final Country"	Daniel Sackheim	Nic Pizzolatto	February 17, 2019 (2019-02-17)	1.32[26]
24	8	"Now Am Found"	Daniel Sackheim	Nic Pizzolatto	February 24, 2019 (2019-02-24)	1.38[27]

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External links

• Official website
• True Detective – list of episodes on IMDb
• List of True Detective episodes at TV.com